One could hope for rising wages to induce marginally attached workers into the labor market. One could propose changing unemployment insurance to make it easier for workers to go where the jobs are. Or one can propose an increase in low-skill immigration into that sector of the economy where unemployment is already high, where employment is most precarious for those who do have jobs. and where compensation has been declining for thirty years. A national conservative party would seek limited government policies that might help arrest the long-term decline in labor-force participation and family stability among low-skill American citizens and current residents. An employer-interest faction would just seek to increase the leverage of employers against low-skill workers who can’t cut it.

H/T to a pseudonym-using NRO commenter for the temporary workers link and information.